Year 2010

wow! What a year. 2010 was really tremendous year with great memories, remarkable achievements and significant experience Alhamdulillah. I wonder time passed so fast, I remember writing Year 2009 highlights as well.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2010:

• I was promoted twice this year in my career at Telenor. First from Development Officer to Executive and very recently to Development Team Lead
• For the first time in my career, I lead a team of developers and delivered Project on time!
• I was invited at Global MVP Summit 2010 by Microsoft at Redmond, USA. I attended the event and this for perhaps my first trip to USA. I have also written few blog posts on “MVP Summit” as well. The visit to Microsoft Campus was really remarkable. Wish I could attend every year :)
• I completed all the course work or rather 80% of my postgraduate studies [MS (Software Project Management) ] at FAST-NUCES
• Awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional 2010 second time by Microsoft Corporation, USA
• Become Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for .NET Framework 4.0 [Web and Service Communication Applications]
• Judged software competition in two events i.e. Procom 2010 and Techelite 2010
• Invited as speaker at several community sessions to talk on various technology topics
• Organized various community events being User Group Leader:
  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate LoadFest
  • Emerging .NET Devs: October UG Meeting on Windows Phone 7
  • DevNext: Windows Development using C++
  • Emerging .NET Devs: June UG Meeting on Workflow Foundation v4
  • Windows 7 for Geeks
  • DevNext: How we build applications in Industry [exclusive for UIT students]
  • DevNext: Web Programming Concepts using ASP.NET [exclusive for NED students]

 

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I would like to Thank my family, friends and colleagues for their extensive support and cooperation in helping me achieve what I wanted to. I hope and pray to Allah that year 2011 will bring peace, health, happiness and prosperity to world and in particular to my and your (reader) life.

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